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Activists planning mass civil disobedience
The original of this article was from SFGate. This is lifted from Taliban-On-Line, where they love such stories...
If a major war breaks out in Iraq, the first thing Rev. Stuart Fitch plans to do is pray, sending love to everyone from Saddam Hussein to President Bush. Then he'll call his congregation to church for a service.
"Oh, President Sammy! I lo-o-o-o-ve yew!"
And then, perhaps, the 78-year-old dotard Episcopalian clergyman will get himself committed arrested. "There will be plenty of people going to jail that day," said Fitch, who wears his stiff pastoral collar beneath a powder-blue shirt. "I'm thinking about joining them."
There are plenty more people who will be thinking seriously of tossing rotten fruit and the occasional beer bottle at jugheads like Rev. Fitch. I'm thinking about joining them...
While the Pentagon has spent the past year training troops, building facilities and stockpiling weapons to launch a war against Iraq, the peace movement has been using the buildup time to coordinate "emergency response plans" to disrupt domestic military activity, tie up commerce and get out their unchanging anti-war message. Rally meeting places are posted, march routes set, protest signs painted, acts of nonviolent civil disobedience choreographed. Activists in more than a dozen cities have announced where and when to meet on the first day of war — what they call "The Day Of." In Dallas, they plan speeches at City Hall; in San Francisco, they plan to block traffic in the business district; in St. Louis they will hold a candlelight vigil downtown; in Seattle they plan to march at the federal building. In New York City, organizers hope to crowd Times Square with protesters.
I think it's absolutely ducky that this article is carried on Taliban-On-Line. The very fact shines a searchlight on the pretense of these lackwits. In SFGateland, this is par for the curse; if the did such things where the Talibs were in control, they'd end up dangling from ropes. If they tried such things in Iraq they'd be in jug for years, with daily sessions with pliers and meathooks scheduled.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-31
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=8914